Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
Henry David ThoreauThe fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David ThoreauEven in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.
Henry David ThoreauWhat avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?
Henry David Thoreau